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We are all familiar with the basic idea of Pharoh's dreams. Pharoh dreamt of
7 thin cows devouring 7 plump cows. Joseph symbolically interpreted this
to mean that 7 years of starvation would come and make people forget the
7 years of plenty which had preceded them. In the table below we provide
a linear symbolic translation of Pharoh's dream and its interpretation.
Verse text
| Symbolic interpretation
| Source
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Pharoh stood on the Nile
| Pharoh reviewed the Egyptian economy
| Gn41-01b
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And from the river
| from the economy
| Gn41-01b
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there arose 7 cows
| there arose 7 years
| Numerical symbolism
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good looking and plump
| good years with plenty to eat
| Gn41-02a
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grazing in the meadow
| with brotherhood and no economic jealousy
| Gn41-02b
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But then 7 other cows came after them
| 7 other years followed them
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bad looking and thin
| bad years with little to eat
| Analogy with Gn41-02a
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and they stood by the cows on the river bank
| Two sets of years affected the economy but
| Gn41-04a
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the bad looking cows consumed the good looking cows
| the bad years made people forget the good years
| Gn41-04a
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Advanced Rashi: The above table uses the so called
linear translation method. This method was introduced (or popularized)
by Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Sharfman in his Linear Translation of the Bible and
Rashi. Rabbi Sharfman's linear translation is still very popular among
those who are beginners in learning Rashi. Rabbi Sharfman was in fact Rabbi
of my synaggoue when I was young and I spent many enjoyable Shabbath afternoons
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